Red horizons, a book by former security general Ion Mihai Pachepa, is far from an evangelical letter. Vlad Georgescu, Director of the Romanian Service Free Europe, who paid with his life for the decision to serialize it on shortwave, was one of the first to say so. And in an editorial from November 1987, in which he announced the imminent release of fragments from the book, and in a conversation with Emil Khurezyanu, transmitted immediately after the end Peacemakers. As hâtru our Neculai Constantin Munteanu always called it.

Somehow, with all its flaws, with all its exaggerations, Red horizons revealed to the world not only the incredible suffering of the regime of the personal dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, not only the criminal nature of communism, which exists as such regardless of the name of who holds all the levers of power for a certain time, but also the relationship of succession between the regime of Gheorghe Georgiou-Deja and the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. There is a visible connection, among other things, in the decision of both leaders to sell the country’s citizens, condition their right to free emigration with a certain payment. Done either in cash, or in dollars, as Nicolae Ceausescu wanted, or in pigs, as it was during the time of Deja. Citizens of Jewish or German nationality were literally sold, and this sale was a state operation controlled by the high political and security hierarchy of the RPR or SSR.

The book begins with this terrible reality Export French journalist Sonia Devillier. The book was published in 2022 by a prestigious Parisian publishing house Flammarion and in the summer of 2023 in the Romanian translation of Doina Marian with a foreword by Radu Ioanid in excellent Polisher from Yass.

Sonya Devillier was born in 1975 in Paris. Her mother’s name was Marina Deleanu. Maternal grandparents were Harry Deleanu and Gabriela Deleanu. All of them were born in Romania. Before carrying the name Deleanu, the family of the journalist’s grandparents was called Greenberg, which was actually the first name Grunberg. Gabriela Deleanu came from the famous Sanielevich family, which gave Romania at least seven first-rate intellectual personalities. The seven were brothers of Gabria’s mother, who proudly exclaimed Seven, and all in the Academy. All of them were of Jewish ethnicity, all of them belonging to a community that apparently numbered more than 700,000 souls in interwar Romania.

In her book, Sonya Devilliers mainly tells the story of her grandparents. Which also had the peace guaranteed by the prosperity it enjoyed mostly in the interwar period, and the persecution unleashed by the Iron Guard and the legionary nation state, and what happened during the Antonescu dictatorship. To a certain extent, their existence resembled what they describe as peculiar to the condition of the Jew in a state where anti-Semitism was reduced to the rank of rule in Magazine his Michael Sebastian.

After 1944, joining the Communist Party was almost arbitrary. The CPSU was a symbol of Moscow, the USSR, like it or not, bore the brunt of the war against Hitler’s Germany. Germany was identified with the persecution of Jews. With the Holocaust. From the Shoah. The mass commitment of Jews to Communism, and with a great degree of generality, was explained in lavish detail by François Furet in his correspondence with Ernest Nolte (see Fascism and communismART Publishing House, Bucharest, 2007).

Sonya Devilliers honestly admits that her grandparents and her family reconciled with communism relatively easily. That they tried to ignore the fact that they are minorities, that they are Jews. Sonia Devilliers also admits that the Delenians did not take her badly in the first part of the communist regime. They had a good social status, positions according to their training, even some small privileges. The Delenians, Sonia Devilliers also honestly admits, were somewhat sensitive to what had already turned out to be bad in the communist world. Unlike, say, Serge Moscovici, Harry and Gabriel Deleanu had no idea that things would soon change. Stalin gave free rein to anti-Semitic sentiments, and Gheorghe Georgiou-Dezh took full advantage of this situation to remove his Jewish rivals from the party leadership. Under various pretexts, they were removed from the responsible positions they held, especially all of the Jewish nationality. This also happened to Harry and Gabriela Deleanu. Accused of theft, sabotage, ostracized. All kinds of invented sins. Hence the idea of ​​emigration.

From this moment he enters the stage agent. This is Henry Jacober. He helped the Romanian state to sell the Jews not for money, not for dollars, but for pigs. Landras. A superior race. Pigs that the Romanian government did not set aside for consumption by the fighting Romanians, but sold them on. – Read the entire article and comment on contributors.ro